Work & commute · Laurens

Work & commute in Laurens, SC

Most working residents leave Laurens for work: only 13% work in town. The top destinations are Greenville (7%), Columbia (3%) and Fountain Inn (3%). Half commute less than 27 miles.

Census LEHD commute flows, 2023 Census ACS commute times

Work in town

13%

528 of 4,043 working residents

Typical commute

27 mi

Half commute less than this, straight-line

Average commute time

21 min

One way, from the Census survey

Work from home

of workers, from the Census survey

Coming and going

Who leaves, who stays, who comes in

On a workday 3,515 Laurens residents head out of town to work, 528 work right here, and 3,385 people come in from elsewhere to fill jobs in Laurens.

3,515live here, work elsewhere

528live and work here

3,385work here, live elsewhere

Leave for workStayCome in

The map

Where Laurens goes to work

Laurens (in town)right here

13%528

Greenville30.2 mi away

7%301

Columbia71.7 mi away

3%115

Fountain Inn16.9 mi away

3%112

Clinton9.4 mi away

3%112

Spartanburg31.1 mi away

2%86

Greenwood22.5 mi away

2%81

Mauldin25.1 mi away

2%79

Simpsonville20.5 mi away

2%70

Anderson35.4 mi away

1%42

Everywhere elseother towns and states

62%2,517

Lines run between town centers; a thicker line means more commuters. The top 10 towns each way.

How far

How far Laurens commutes

Straight-line distance from home to work, for every working resident. Roads add to it, so real drives run longer.

26%

20%

33%

21%

26%Under 10 mi

20%10–24 mi

33%25–50 mi

21%Over 50 mi

Job hub or commuter town?

Laurens is balanced between jobs and homes

0.97jobs per working resident

Balanced

About as many jobs as working residents (0.97 per resident).

The jobs

What the jobs in Laurens are

3,913 jobs are based in Laurens. Here is what they are, next to the jobs Laurens’s own residents hold wherever they work.

Jobs based in Laurens

3,913 jobs

Goods (factories, building, farms)11%

Trade, transport & utilities22%

Services (health, schools, offices…)67%

$1,250 a month or less23%

$1,251–$3,333 a month35%

Over $3,333 a month42%

Jobs Laurens residents hold

4,043 working residents

Goods (factories, building, farms)29%

Trade, transport & utilities20%

Services (health, schools, offices…)51%

$1,250 a month or less17%

$1,251–$3,333 a month34%

Over $3,333 a month49%

−14%

Jobs based in Laurens, 2013 → 2023: 4,563 → 3,913. Big swings can come from how a large employer reports its locations, not only from real openings or closings.

About these numbers

How to read this page

Every worker, home to workThe Census links each worker’s home block to their main job’s block, for jobs covered by unemployment insurance. That’s most jobs, but not the self-employed.

Where the employer saysA job counts where the employer reports it. Some big employers report one address for many sites, which can make a few commutes look longer than they are.

Two surveysFlows, distances and jobs: LEHD 2023. Commute time and working from home: the Census American Community Survey.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics (LODES 8), 2023, primary jobs; American Community Survey 5-year estimates.